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Ethiopia's new PM Abiy Ahmed says several people have been killed in an explosion that hit a rally he was speaking at earlier on Saturday.

He described it as an "unsuccessful attempt by forces who do not want to see Ethiopia united".

Mr Abiy was whisked away immediately after the blast, thought to be from a grenade thrown amid thousands of people in the capital's Meskel Square.

Ethiopia has been riven by years of sometimes violent protests.

Mr Abiy only became prime minister after his predecessor Hailemariam Desalegn unexpectedly resigned in February.

He is the country's first leader from the ethnic Oromo group, which has been at the centre of nearly three years of anti-government protests that have left hundreds of people dead.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44586187

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Distressful images from Meskel Flower Square, Addis Ababa. the Masters are not happy with this Abiy Ahmed guy. 

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Holac   

The destabilization of Ethiopia has just started with that bomb. I think it is a first, if I am not mistaken. This could be the equivalent of the suicide bombing against Abdulahi Yusuf in Baidoa which triggered the eventually downfall of Aweys and his Islamic courts.

A long struggle is about to come. Who will be standing in the end?

 

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23 minutes ago, Holac said:

OO, what are your thoughts? Who do you think is behind it?  Eritrea?

 

 

Possible. There has been talk and even on media from Eritrea and Eritrea based organizations accusing the Tigray. This is I think reverse psychology to make Tigray easy blame.

I do not think it will work. If it works then could be end of Ethiopia. Iley should be ready to be president of new country. Join Joubuti and no need to fight for recognition. The next day new country business as usual.

 

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5 hours ago, Xaaji Xunjuf said:

Very sad  some one trying to disrupt the peace in Ethiopia. I wonder who's behind it 

Its looking more like Ukraine.

Remember that the current president of Ukraine laying flowers and those who died were made 100 so its more catchy. They call them "the saintly hundred". Guess what. The killers were non other than mercenaries brough in a day before from Georgia and Poland. A court none other than a Ukrainian court has confirmed this in the open.

People were burned alive in Odessa. All to make the "revolution" look like facing Russia.

 

You will see now evidence being changed story lines changed for an act that happened in the open. Already started saying "we are still searching" lol. RIP the dead but all this to make image of the PM looks concerted.

 

You would think the suspect would have been captured and even information given to public by now.

 

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea condemned a grenade attack at a rally in Addis Ababa attended by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Eritrea’s ambassador to Japan wrote on Twitter.

“#Eritrea strongly condemns the attempt to incite violence, in today’s AA demonstration for peace, 1st of its kind in history of #Ethiopia.” Ambassador Estifanos Afeworki said on Twitter.

Ethiopia and Eritrea have long been at loggerheads over a border dispute. But Abiy stunned Ethiopians this month by saying he was ready to fully implement a peace deal with Eritrea that was signed in 2000 after a two-year war and which Addis Ababa had previously refused to implement without further talks.

 

Reporting by Aaron Maasho in Addis Ababa and Omar Mohammed in Nairobi; Editing by Edmund Blair

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3 minutes ago, Ifiye said:

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea condemned a grenade attack at a rally in Addis Ababa attended by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Eritrea’s ambassador to Japan wrote on Twitter.

“#Eritrea strongly condemns the attempt to incite violence, in today’s AA demonstration for peace, 1st of its kind in history of #Ethiopia.” Ambassador Estifanos Afeworki said on Twitter.

Ethiopia and Eritrea have long been at loggerheads over a border dispute. But Abiy stunned Ethiopians this month by saying he was ready to fully implement a peace deal with Eritrea that was signed in 2000 after a two-year war and which Addis Ababa had previously refused to implement without further talks.

 

Reporting by Aaron Maasho in Addis Ababa and Omar Mohammed in Nairobi; Editing by Edmund Blair

 

Why is Eritrea first country and most repeated in the news of its condemnation. Do they know something others don't?

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Ifiye   

An Ethiopian rebel group has suspended its armed resistance against the government.

Ginbot 7 said Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's reforms had given it hope that "genuine democracy" may be "a real possibility".

Earlier, the government said it had unblocked 264 websites and TV channels.

This is the latest of numerous changes made since Mr Abiy came to office in April, relaxing the state's previously tight grip on power.

Ginbot 7, which is based in neighbouring Eritrea, had been designated a terrorist organisation by previous governments.

Its secretary-general, Andargachew Tsege, was seized in Yemen in 2014, and then sent to Ethiopia where he had been sentenced to death in absentia in 2009 for allegedly plotting a coup.

The Ethiopian government pardoned Mr Tsege on 29 May and he has since returned to the UK, where his family lives.

Mr Tsege recently told the BBC that his release came after Prime Minister Abiy had threatened to resign.

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Media caption'Ethiopian PM Ahmed said release Tsege or I resign'

In recent years Ethiopia has been riven by protests by members of the country's two largest ethnic groups - the Oromo and the Amhara.

Demonstrations first spread across the country in 2015 amid calls for political and economic reform and an end to state corruption.

The government was accused of human rights violations in that time - including torture and extrajudicial killing of political dissidents.

Presentational grey line

Reforms yielding results

By Ashagre Hailu, BBC Amharic editor

Ginbot 7's decision to end a 10-year armed resistance is an achievement by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Ginbot (May) 7 was founded in 2005 and named after the date of that year's elections, which were marred by protests over alleged fraud that led to the deaths of about 200 people.

The group argued that peaceful struggle was not working.

It said it was not fighting to seize power, but wanted to help usher in a democratic system that respects the rights of the citizen.

The movement said its goal was "the realization of a national political system in which government power and political authority is assumed through peaceful and democratic process based on the free will and choice of citizens of the country".

The Ethiopian parliament outlawed the movement as a terrorist organization alongside the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF).

The prime minister recently called for all armed groups to lay down their arms and return to the country.

The interviews Mr Tsege has given since his release indicate that he is convinced of the goodwill of the prime minister and his reforms.

Reports indicate that other rebel groups have opened a dialogue with the Ethiopian government.

Eritrea has accepted Ethiopia's call to end a two-decade confrontation, so insurgent groups based in Eritrea are also expected to lay down their arms

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Ifiye   

Actions by desperate Woyane thugs might help speed up the disingtratiton of Ethiopia and the freedom of many nations within that country.     

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Ifiye   

People openly reject the 2006 Tplf introduced flag with the star in the middle and instead wave the old flag.  You can still see the Tplf imposed  flag which is the official Ethiopian flag in the background.

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